Statement of faith

James Allard (Emma Dunn) October 6th, 2014 John Milton’s Characterization of God as ‘King’ In the poem When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton, the speaker characterizes God as ‘king’ as a measure of demonstrating his strengthening faith in God. Via the structure of the poem, choice of words and Language, rhyme scheme and sound, tone, we readers are able to obtain what the main focus and theme of what the poem emphasizes on; Dreams, hope and religious beliefs. Religious beliefs…

acknowledges reason, pragmatism, and evidence, while religion tends to include faith and inviolability. Each is in competition for cultural authority. Either science…

wrote “Candide or Optimism”. Those stories are related to the religion belief. Voltaire story stated that "As far as human concerned, God gave them reason and then left them free to use it". It has happened in the Moliere story (Tartuffe) if Orgon had faith in God he would not bring the deceiver into his house. Because he did not use his sense of reasoning that lead him to the problem he was facing. He meets with an imposter was not the God will, but since he believed Tartuffe more than anyone…

understand this concept of faith in the speech, we must first understand what it is faith, and that reason, no matter which religion you belong is reflected in that faith. The word faith derives from the Latin term "fides" and the word itself, allows naming that in what is believed by a person or a community. It also refers to a sense of certainty and positive concept we might have of an individual or of something. In our daily lives, the way we might use the worth faith could have different…

A clear, concise, and well-communicated statement summarizing the foundations of Christianity, The Sermon on the Mount is an incomprehensibly impactful and irrefutably controversial work of literature. Divisive to some and a critical cornerstone to others, this passage from the Biblical Gospel of Matthew contains a collection of metaphorical imagery and expressions in addition to promises of heavenly rewards and warnings of perpetual punishment in the afterlife to those who accept or disavow its…

Religion, faith, and belief are used interchangeably; yet are meant to express three very different ideas. Religion is the belief in a divine superhuman power or principle, such as the creator of all things. Faith, however, is belief without evidence and belief is the acceptance of something as true or actual. Acceptance is the key to the words faith and belief. To have faith in something you must first believe it and accept it. Everyone has faith and belief, but not everyone believes in a…

Faith is something that everyone proclaims to have. Faith is something that Kierkegaard wanted for people to think about before claiming they possessed of it. He used Abraham’s story to explain what faith can do. Abraham is seen as the father of faith in the bible, and for Kierkegaard Abraham was the knight of faith. For the bible Abraham was the father of faith for the reason that he passed the trial that God put on him. The trial consisted of Abraham sacrificing his best, which was his son…

step, it is important that I recognize God has a plan for me and I shall have faith in his plan. If there are challenges placed before me, I must accept these challenges and try my best to work my way through them; After all, being optimistic in circumstances such as struggles and bumps along my pathway will benefit me best and enable me to achieve what I set my heart to. With this, I believe it is a matter of having faith in the plans God has set for me to achieve, staying optimistic, and…

On October 7th, I attended a personal mission statement session which was provided by the University of Texas at San Antonio Career Center. In this session I created a motto that made me choose couple of different verbs and core values which I felt best fitting to me. These verbs where believe, forgive, understand, encourage and respect. The core values I choose where, acceptance, faith, loyalty, creativity, courage, serenity, love and intelligence. We then answered a couple of questions,…

religions that I had never encountered before, and these contradicted my prior knowledge of religion. JW von Goethe once said, “we know with confidence only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases”. Exposure increased my knowledge of other faiths, but this increase also meant more doubts, more questions. For example, how can there be this many religious divisions, despite, there being only one God? Every religion envisions life in different light with different rules to live by, but…